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Witches - spell help

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lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 11:09

Hey, looking for some advice as in all the years of spell work I have never had this happen before.

i did a spell on the full moon, all very well intentioned, to help me save money. I lit a candle in a special place to me, set my intention, and the candle blew out quite quickly. It was near a window, so I took it to mean spell completed ie wish made.

i took the candle home and lit it again later on the lionsgate portal night to strengthen my resolve. The wax kind of dripped on to my finger and burned me a lot. I’ve never had that happen before. I looked it up and some say it’s a warning (what can it be warning me about, it’s literally just to make me save money 😂) or - very differing view - the spell needed some kind of karmic or energy payment from me, and I “paid” with the burn to add strength and resolve to the spell.

any thoughts? I’ve done this a long time and never cast bad or ill intentioned spells so I don’t know what this was about! Has someone hexed me?

blessed be x

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TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 14/08/2025 11:55

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 11:52

People across the world do so everyday. It is a common practise, will you accept that people blow out birthday candles and do knock on wood?

pinch punch first day of the month… Never done that?
wished someone luck on their first day at work? Never done that?

sure

Yes, children blow out their candles.
I've never seen an adult's cake with candles on it.

I've never seen or heard of knocking on wood.

viques · 14/08/2025 11:55

MagpiePi · 14/08/2025 11:37

Why not get the universe to manifest you the winning euromillions numbers?

Oi! I am manifesting those. Paws off please.

SunlitUpland · 14/08/2025 11:55

BloodandGlitter · 14/08/2025 11:48

Just the other day a poster was complaining about other posters mocking Christianity and saying it never happens to other religions but obviously Paganism is also fair game for mocking.

If you don't believe in a religion someone else does that's absolutely fine but you don't need to sit and be a spiteful twat about it.

The PP posted because she was afraid someone had hexed her. People are pointing out that (a) this is not possible and (b) that people get candle wax on themselves all the time. Believing she’s been hexed because of something that happens every time someone blows out candles on a birthday cake or lights a tea light makes as much sense as thinking a feather in your garden is a message from a dead relative rather than evidence of birds.

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AnotherNaCha · 14/08/2025 11:56

It’s a literal message: don’t get your fingers burned. Look up the meaning, it’s essentially stop doing what you’ve done before

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/08/2025 11:56

Maybe it's the universe warning you to stop playing with candles as wax is liquid and hot?

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 14/08/2025 11:56

If you can’t look up at a star and make a wish on it, that’s sad for you

But why?

I've never felt the need to make a wish on a star. You don't need to feel sad for me because of this.

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 11:58

AnotherNaCha · 14/08/2025 11:56

It’s a literal message: don’t get your fingers burned. Look up the meaning, it’s essentially stop doing what you’ve done before

I love this!

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MagpiePi · 14/08/2025 11:58

SunlitUpland · 14/08/2025 11:55

The PP posted because she was afraid someone had hexed her. People are pointing out that (a) this is not possible and (b) that people get candle wax on themselves all the time. Believing she’s been hexed because of something that happens every time someone blows out candles on a birthday cake or lights a tea light makes as much sense as thinking a feather in your garden is a message from a dead relative rather than evidence of birds.

I'd never heard of feathers being a message from dead relatives, but if it is true then I guess a dead relative of mine has been messaging me to tell a pigeon to be a bit quicker off the ground when a cat jumps out at it.

BunniB · 14/08/2025 11:58

NapoleonsToe · 14/08/2025 11:54

Tradition. Nothing more. They're just sayings left in our language from the past.

That's in response to why do people still quote superstitious sayings.

Edited

Ahhh I see you’ve caught “White Western Male 19th Century Thinking” disease.

It was a rife global epidemic, incredible how that belief system took hold so quickly and with such devastating effect still overshadowing the world today.

You don’t happen to believe that adults with small skulls are less intelligent do you? If you do I think you might need to seek professional help, as that would indicate a severe case.

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 11:59

ThisSparklyViper · 14/08/2025 11:55

Which finger was it?

It was actually my thumb

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TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 14/08/2025 12:00

..................makes as much sense as thinking a feather in your garden is a message from a dead relative rather than evidence of birds

Well, yes. If there were several feathers, how would you know which dead relative had sent you the supposed message?

Or how would you know what the message meant, anyway?

It's nonsensical.

Findingmypurposeinlife · 14/08/2025 12:00

IHateWasps · 14/08/2025 11:25

No it doesn’t work at all. People do plenty of things repeatedly that don’t work like pray to non existent beings and become involved in pyramid schemes that will never make them any real money in spite of it blatantly not working. That people keep doing it just shows how deluded they are and how this sort of nonsense sucks the gullible and vulnerable in.

As for open minded, believing in blatant nonsense is foolishness not being open minded. There’s not a shred of evidence for this.

The next time that an item goes missing in my home I could consider that Peter the Purple Pixie who may live in my garden may have taken it but people would rightly look at me like I’m an idiot if I went into the garden to ask him to give it back instead of looking in my home for the item that I’ve misplaced.

People wouldn't think you are an idiot if you didn't tell them that Peter may have taken it 🤫

PurpleChrayn · 14/08/2025 12:00

My thoughts are that if you place a lit candle by a window it’s likely to blow out.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 14/08/2025 12:00

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 11:59

It was actually my thumb

Is that significant in woo terms?

EchoedSilence · 14/08/2025 12:01

There's a massive pile of feathers in my front garden. Looks like all my dead relatives have had a party out there.

ForeverDelayedEpiphany · 14/08/2025 12:02

I'm actually not that cynical about this stuff, I do think there is something in the power of the mind and manifesting etc.

Wasn't there a famous experiment that showed how the growth of two different plants were affected by one group thinking positive thoughts and the other negative thoughts? Then both plants responded accordingly, with one flourishing and one dying. It was pretty interesting 🤔

BunniB · 14/08/2025 12:03

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne it is nonsensical to you. I find quantum physics nonsensical but i respect the fact that people trained in physics understand what it is all about.

PS if you want to delight in things beyond your understanding, watch a few documentaries on the role of quantum physics in the flight habits of migratory birds. Amazing.

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 12:03

PurpleChrayn · 14/08/2025 12:00

My thoughts are that if you place a lit candle by a window it’s likely to blow out.

I did think that but I had to let the vibes out of the window and in to the universe 😂

People are out there sage-ing their homes, having hopes and dreams everyday, wanting things, crossing their fingers, I really find this the most normal thing in the world to do, I can’t believe it’s got so much hate 😂

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lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 12:03

Maybe you naysayers are my hex.

I’ll be back when I’ve bought the super yacht and you can all laugh then!

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HappyNewTaxYear · 14/08/2025 12:04

Hmm interesting. Is there any way we can use this spell casting stuff to sort out Gaza?

WillYouShutUp · 14/08/2025 12:05

EchoedSilence · 14/08/2025 12:01

There's a massive pile of feathers in my front garden. Looks like all my dead relatives have had a party out there.

I’m starting to suspect there’s something in the black cat superstition, although i can never remember if it’s lucky or unlucky if one crosses your path. It’s certainly unlucky if you’re a bird.

ThisSparklyViper · 14/08/2025 12:07

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 14/08/2025 12:00

Is that significant in woo terms?

This makes total sense. Body parts are home to meridians, and the thumb, big toe and earlobes are all about your ‘core essence’. This sounds crazy but when I’ve had strong intentions I’ll often get a heavy knock on a body part, it’s source energy literally helping to deliver a rush of ‘energy’ to this ‘part’ of you.
You sent out a request, your spirit went okay whammo, this will help you become more of ‘who’ you are because being more of who you are helps money flow.
Yes, there’s your daily dose of woo-woo.

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 12:07

WillYouShutUp · 14/08/2025 12:05

I’m starting to suspect there’s something in the black cat superstition, although i can never remember if it’s lucky or unlucky if one crosses your path. It’s certainly unlucky if you’re a bird.

It is whatever you want it to be. The message is yours to take. I always take a single magpie as good luck even though the rhyme (which someone will tell me in a moment they’ve never heard and no one else on the planet ever heard and it’s all a part of my mental illness) says it’s one for sorrow: because think of all the days you don’t see one 🥹

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MagpiePi · 14/08/2025 12:08

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 12:03

I did think that but I had to let the vibes out of the window and in to the universe 😂

People are out there sage-ing their homes, having hopes and dreams everyday, wanting things, crossing their fingers, I really find this the most normal thing in the world to do, I can’t believe it’s got so much hate 😂

You put a lit candle by an open window but you think it is a special sign when it blows out?

IHateWasps · 14/08/2025 12:09

lastminutetrip · 14/08/2025 12:03

I did think that but I had to let the vibes out of the window and in to the universe 😂

People are out there sage-ing their homes, having hopes and dreams everyday, wanting things, crossing their fingers, I really find this the most normal thing in the world to do, I can’t believe it’s got so much hate 😂

Burning your thumb with some melted wax and thinking that it means that someone is out to get you is far from the most normal thing in the world.

I spilled some tea on myself this morning and it hurt. This happened because A) Hot tea does burn. B) I am clumsy as have dyspraxia. And C) I have nerve damage in my hands so I struggle to grip things. It did not occur to me that someone is plotting my imminent demise.